Academic Areas of Interest

Personal Areas of Interest

Tai Chi Chuan, Orchid Growing, and Beekeeping

Biography

I was born and raised in southwestern Ohio near Cincinnati. I grew up in a rural area and roamed woods, fields, and river banks with my friends and my brother. I did well in school and was most interested in science, especially biology. I was not an athlete, but played little league baseball every summer until I entered high school. I met my wife, June, while we were both in high school. We were “high school sweethearts” and we later married in 1969.
After we both graduated from the Ohio State University we moved to Houston, Texas where I attended graduate school and June started her career as a graphic designer. After adjusting to the heat and humidity of the Gulf coast, we loved the big city life. In 1977 we came to Pittsburgh for my post doctoral training and June continued her work as a graphic designer.
In 1980, I was offered a position at the Max Planck Clinical Research Unit in Reproductive Medicine, Muenster, Federal Republic of Germany, usually called West Germany. June and I discussed for a few days and we decided to move there. I spoke very little German-June none, but that did not seem important. I still speak a very little German; June became very proficient in the language.
We would not trade our five years in Germany, not only because of the people and culture, but our daughters , Jessica and Anneliese, were born there. We left Germany in 1985 about 18 months after Anneliese’s birth. We returned to Pittsburgh and have been here since.

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Ramaswamy S, Marshall GR, McNeilly AS and Plant TM. Evidence that in a physiological setting Sertoli cell number is the major determinant of circulating concentrations of inhibin B in the adult male rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta). J Andrology 20:430-434, 1999.

Ramaswamy S, Marshall GR, McNeilly AS and Plant TM. Dynamics of the follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)-inhibin B feedback loop and its role in regulating spermatogenesis in the adult male rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) as revealed by unilateral orchidectomy. Endocrinology 141:18-27, 2000.